# Biography
I completed my undergraduate studies in Psychology and French Language & Literature at Yonsei University (Seoul), and earned a Master’s degree in Digital Composition at the University of Edinburgh (UK). During my studies abroad, I encountered expanded concepts of sound and new directions in digital algorithms, which became a turning point in my artistic practice. Since then, I have been working within the broad field of media art, employing digital programming languages to pursue interdisciplinary approaches.
My work explores ways to create mutually ecological environments between the surrounding context and the artwork. Drawing on humanistic themes—such as linguistic symbols, the physics of time, insights into unconscious environments, and the imagery and presence of memory—I realize these ideas through environments shaped by digital algorithms. My artistic activities encompass indoor and outdoor installations, live performances on stage platforms, and algorithmic video works in outdoor contexts, allowing for diverse modes of presentation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, my interest has expanded to the micro-ecological environment—including viruses and bacteria—and I have presented generative sound and media installations that investigate their emergent flows and structures.
Selected projects and exhibitions include:
– Belle Faust (B Track) – Selected for Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC) Arts Creation Grant, Seoul, 2023
– Selected for the Arts Council Korea Multidisciplinary Arts Reboot Program, Seoul, 2021
– Selected for SFAC Sounds On – Music & Sound Art Program, Seoul, 2021
– Imperfect Arrangement: AAGAA, Invited Exhibition, Seoul
– This is How the Conversation Begins (A Track) – SFAC Arts Creation Grant, Seoul, 2020
– Equinox – Interactive Sound Installation, mythtakemuseum, 2019
– scatter:Encounter – Real-time Audiovisual Installation / International Residency & Performance, Athens, 2019
– Digital Graffiti – Audiovisual Installation, Florida, 2019
– Artwork Holiday, Paris, 2018
– HM² – Composition / Live Sound Performance, Tokyo, 2018
– Presence – Audiovisual Installation, SIA Art Space, Seoul, 2017
– NeMaf New Media Art Festival, Seoul, 2016
# Artist statement
As a sound and digital media artist, my practice explores the potential of text, including numbers, letters, and symbols, for the foundation of artistic expression. In the form of ‘code’, the text constitutes of various audio/ visual processing algorithms and various operating/ engineering systemical structures. From an intangible starting point, it becomes to be digital algorithmic-processed and structurally-integrated with hardware technology, resulting in physically perceptible manifestations. I mainly create interactive and generative audiovisual installations, which employ stochastic probabilities, mathematical functions, various types of data processings and hardware design for sound.
Especially, sound as an invisible yet spatially-formative entity encompasses areas beyond human perception. By re-arranging and digitally-processing audio materials, I explore both harmonic order and disruption, employing it as a medium to spot on overlooked and unnoticed edges of human life, and bringing critical issues underlying in relationship between us and the nature. Additional inspirations include genetic sequence data and visualized symbolic data and systems which feed into the conceptual and technical layers of my practice.
Art reflects the world. My practice necessarily engages a critical stance, by refusing to conform to prevailing trends and rejecting any anthropocentric allure of “biased beauty” and its self-indulgence. Issues such as the climate crisis, zoonotic transmission, political polarization, ideological conflict, and wars have become urgent issues that refuse to be ignored in our daily life. And it makes my artistic practices not to turn away from them. I approach into these contemporary concerns through multiple layers – ecological environments and evolution, human desire, nationhood and politics, and history, and try to find any meaningful artistic interconnections and raise a question.